(01-18-2011, 09:28 PM)dannzen Wrote:(01-18-2011, 01:02 PM)hypnotoad Wrote: One of these days I'll have good hardware, too. When I had money, I went all out on a Phenom II X4 970 3.50 GHz, and 2 SSDs in raid0, for a boot drive. But then, I decided to cheap out on a video card. I'm regretting that now.
why? if you dont play with 4xAA or 9xAA your video card is nearly sleeping...
i tryed it with mine... with 9xAA she runs at 30-40% load (55fps-mh3)
and with 0xAA at 2-4%load.... and still only 55fps... (mh3)
games are mostly cpu heavy...
(01-19-2011, 07:01 AM)tuanming Wrote: Intel CPUs are better for emulation. AMD won't get any money from me, but their GPU might be a different story.
Are you saying I just paid $170 for nothing? I just ordered a GeForce GTX 460 1GB 256-bit GDDR5
Core Clock: 725MHz
Stream Processors: 336 Processor Cores
Effective Memory Clock: 3600MHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6814127551
Should be here Thursday or Friday.
What I have now is a GeForce 210 512MB 64-bit DDR2
Core Clock: 589MHz
Stream Processors: 16
Effective Memory Clock: 800MHz
It's a $35 vid card. One of the cheapest you can get.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6814130536
I never imagined it's the Phenom II that can't handle this. I'm sorry guys, but I'm not convinced. When my new card gets here, I'll know for sure.
I tested it, and I guess the CPU usage was high. 50-60% When it started slowing down to like 25-50% framerate, where my guy is in fog and stuff.
But why doesn't the CPU go higher than that?